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Like Vanessa / Tami Charles.

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It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.

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ISBN: 9781580897778
ISBN: 1580897770
Physical Description: 284 pages: illustration ; 22 cm
Publisher: Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

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Accelerated Reader Middle Grades 4.9 10.0

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Williams, Vanessa > Juvenile fiction.
African American girls > New Jersey > Newark > Juvenile fiction.
Beauty contests > Juvenile fiction.
Dysfunctional families > New Jersey > Newark > Juvenile fiction.
Urban schools > New Jersey > Newark > Juvenile fiction.
Self-confidence > Juvenile fiction.
Nineteen eighties > Juvenile fiction.
Newark (N.J.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
Williams, Vanessa > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Beauty contests > Fiction.
Family problems > Fiction.
Family life > New Jersey > Newark > Fiction.
Schools > Fiction.
Self-confidence > Fiction.
Newark (N.J.) > History > 20th century > Fiction.
JUVENILE FICTION > People & Places > United States > African American.
Williams, Vanessa.
African American girls.
Beauty contests.
Dysfunctional families.
Nineteen eighties.
Self-confidence.
Urban schools.
New Jersey > Newark.

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Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
Juvenile works.
Historical fiction.

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